I switched to the business line to get a dynamic ip where when i restart my router i will load it back up to get away from being ddos’ed, is there a way to change the ip or did i just waste my time haha

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By: Corrado Mella https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/11/uk-virgin-media-business-static-ip-users-suffer-unstable-broadband.html#comment-186860
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:38:15 +0000https://www.ispreview.co.uk/?p=14871#comment-186860The “Dynamic” IP addresses issued on the VM network are bound to the MAC address of the device that’s seen by the network.
Set the Hitron in modem only mode, clone the modem MAC on your router firewall WAN port – e.g. a good ol’ pfSense – and away you go.
If you never take your connection down for more than a few minutes, the DHCP address that is assigned to your CPE MAC will remain the same for years.
You’re by all means stuck with it, it’s difficult to get rid of.
In fact, if you want a new IP at all (say to get away from some stubborn DDOS) you MUST change the spoofed MAC address of your router/firewall.
In 10 years of VMB service, I had only TWO public IP changes because of local loop resegmentation once and change of gateway the second.
If you have a domain and use an A record to point to your connection, keep a TTL of 600 seconds and you can be back up after a public IP change in 10 minutes.
And at your full speed 24/7/365.
Leave GRE to those that know how to do it.
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By: Alex Lake https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/11/uk-virgin-media-business-static-ip-users-suffer-unstable-broadband.html#comment-185355
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:52:58 +0000https://www.ispreview.co.uk/?p=14871#comment-185355I guess one thing one could do is get a router to stick in front of the Hitron box that knows how to use a VPN service – eg. PureVPN.
The Virgin GRE thing seems broken in terms of ping times as well as download speed, adding an additional 10ms
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By: Poluvex Tripplex https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/11/uk-virgin-media-business-static-ip-users-suffer-unstable-broadband.html#comment-184498
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:19:10 +0000https://www.ispreview.co.uk/?p=14871#comment-184498In reply to PhilB.

GRE overhead in terms of compute / router performance is negligible – it is not encrypted so it does not really tax CPU at all. In my case I have all the Wireless features of the VMB modem as well as firewall disabled (this is handled by another device) so that VMB box isn’t doing much other than GRE termination.

Note: I was on 200mbps service with dynamic IP before the change – same router same line – was easily getting the maximum bandwidth 24/7, hence his excludes any local congestion issues.

no they aren’t – I use VMB router as a gateway with a different router that handles WIFi and LAN. I tuned MTU sizes with proper mtu-path testing (best size comes at about 1462). OK it did fixed some web site loading stability issues – however my average bandwidth is still no better than 40mbps on 350mbps service I am paying for. Highest I was able to test ever was 100mbps and only managed to get it once. I can get 60mbps on a good day but it is hanging around 25-30 max most pf the time. Poor, very poor indeed.

“Fit for use and faulty are not the same thing. Read the warranty section about goods if you are going to quote the sale of goods act.”

And to quote it fully and properly…
‘Fit for purpose – The goods should be fit for the purpose they are supplied for, as well as any specific purpose you made known to the retailer before you agreed to buy the goods.’

Pity he did not “”buy”” the superhub and its only basically loaned to you, otherwise he may of had at least half a point.

As for Jonny that appears to be the james cretin under a new moniker, he needed one for his persistent virgin comments to continue. All since Mark took exception to james reply accusing him of “shockingly writing” of things in another post. Dumb is dumb though and easy to spot.